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Tesla patent outlines system to actively monitor improper seatbelt use

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One such example was demonstrated by Consumer Reports recently when the magazine decided to show exactly how drivers could trick Tesla’s Autopilot driver-monitoring systems. . This was hinted at in a recently-granted patent that outlines a system that detects improper seatbelt use. . Credit: US Patent Office.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

Cars That Think

He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. Unger’s personal blog, “ Ends and Means ,” addressed ethical questions surrounding education, electronic voting, robotics, and other topics.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

Cars That Think

magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. The app would then suggest the person set aside money. She applied for several grants, including a special American Express program for businesses owned by Black women. For her development of geeRemit, Inc. Johnson says she’s stuck in a Catch-22 situation.

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Optimistic EVs – the cure for range anxiety | Opinion

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But I will grant you this – when I discovered that I’d booked an EV for the Christmas break I did have a mild panic, along the lines of “but what if I actually have to GO somewhere”? (As This is one of the things that people who’ve never lived with an EV simply don’t believe; how rarely you’ll actually have to charge it.

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PEUGEOT charges ahead with revised pricing and finance offers for PEUGEOT e-2008 and e-208

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With revised pricing for all e-2008 models and enhanced deposit contributions for the e-208 range, Peugoet is latest manufacturer to respond to the recent overhaul of the UK Government’s Plug-in Car Grant. The grant has been reduced to £2,500 and is now only available on new electric vehicles costing less than £35,000.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. Are you kidding me? BRAD (laughing).

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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1 $100,000 Grant Moving in the Right Direction? Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 2 PIA Meets CARB Move CARB Forward AltCar Expo 2007 Arnold Amped Up? 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. htm Advocates of the Th! htm Advocates of the Th!

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